Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Petco is a leading retailer in the pet supplies industry, committed to improving the lives of pets and their owners. The Demand Analyst role involves managing inventory levels, collaborating with various teams to optimize supply chain efficiency, and driving business results through effective communication and strategy execution.
Responsibilities
- Directly accountable for maintaining in stock levels to goal by driving stock keeping unit (ski) level replenishment and allocation strategies
- Manage ski/location baseline and promotional lift sales forecast
- Proactively manage inventory replenishment and allocation strategies to support promotional, financial, assortment/transition, and other business goals
- Collaborate with Merchandise Planner on promotional and secondary planning including identifying sales lift and needed inventory support
- Drive the identification and resolution of inventory opportunities from Distribution Center (DC) to store that drives greater business profitability and exceeds customer expectations
- Accountable for driving established operational and service goals including in-stock, inventory budget, inventory turnover, and Inventory Management Return on Investment (IMROI)
- Collaborate with merchant and merchandise planning partners to define ski entrance and exit strategies and own strategy execution
- Perform root cause analysis through exception reporting to drive greater efficiencies and results in inventory management
- Drive business results through cross-functional development of strategies to achieve shop/department level goals and objectives
- Interact professionally and effectively through strong verbal and written communication with an emphasis on company and customer interests
- Drive and build cross-functional relationships internally and externally
- Effectively communicate with store partners to help achieve strategic results
- Demonstrate initiative to work independently and in cross functional teams
- Ability to think strategically and effectively implement tactics to ensure goals are met
- Ability to ruthlessly prioritize and multi-task under tight deadlines
- Support vendor management by partnering with Inventory Analyst in collaborative forecasting meetings with vendors, providing promotional and secondary strategy and lifts
- Review and analyze vendor ski's to achieve inventory and financial goals
- Achieve and maintain required system certifications
- Proactively identify and participate in opportunities to expand business, inventory and/or supply chain knowledge and expertise
- Actively participate in personal development planning
Skills
- Four-year Bachelor's degree in Retail Management, Supply Chain, Business or a related field is required
- An equivalent combination of education and related experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree
- Proven advanced ability to use applications within Microsoft Office suite as well a very strong ability to extract and analyze data from databases and make appropriate recommendations is required
- Two to three years of replenishment buying and/or store operations experience is required
- Demonstrate excellent analytical, mathematical and business problem solving skills with the ability to analyze data, conduct research and solve system issues as required
- Demonstrated well-developed communication, interpersonal, analytical and presentation skills are necessary due to the nature and level of interaction with peers and cross-functional teams
- Ability to influence without authority
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